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C'. H. HIGBBE.

GOAL OIL'LAMP.

(No Modelz) Nmsszl. Patented JMB, 1886.

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CHARLES H. HIGBEE, OF NEW YORK, N.

Aram? OFFICE.

Y., ASSIGNOR TO ANDREW J.

DAVIES, OF SAME PLACE.

COAL-OIL LAMP.

SPECIFICATIOI Application filed April 4, 1885.

T @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, GHARLns H. HIGBEE, a citizen of the United States, :residing in the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1 5 j ustment required to vary the size of the iiame.

My invention further consists in the use of a guard for facilitating the introduction of the wick and wick-carrier into the annular chamber ofthe lamp, and for aiding in connecting the wick and carrier together, and of a'guard covering the end of the stationary wick supported by the burner, as set forth hereinafter, and as shown in the drawings, in which` Figure l is a longitudinal section of a wickcarrier and wick illustrating my improvement. Fig. 2 is a section showing amodiication. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the burner and lamp-reservoir.

In order to a proper understanding of my invention I have illustrated the saine in connection with a lamp-burner provided with an annular-wick receptacle having two concentric tubes, A B, the fermer being supported by and constituting part of theV burner, and termed the wick-tube,77 and thelatter extending through the bottom of the oil-reservoir D and constituting an air-tube, within which is supported a tubular stem, a, supporting at its upper end a flame-spreader, E. The burner is provided with the usual cage and dome andk withuangelevatingwheel, J. The wick is carried by a wick-raising tube or carrier, which, as shown, is perforated, that the wheel J may engage therewith, so as to permit the carrier-tube and its wick to be raised and lowered in the annular-wick chamber by turning the shaft to which the wheel is attached; but the carrier-tube may be imperforate and provided with a rack engaging with the wheel either at the outer side or at the inner side, as is common i n burners.

The wick, instead of consisting of a single ordinary circumstances.

forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,521, dated January 5. 18l6.

Serial No. 161,229. (No model.)

wick, as usual, is in two or more sections,fg, the section f being connected immovably to the carriertube K, while the section gis capable of being drawn upward and out of the said tube.

By the construct-ion of the wick above described I am enabled to avoid the waste which results from the use of wicks formed in single pieces or sections, which Wicks must be discarded whenever they have burned away to such an extent as to become so short that the lower ends arenot immersed in the oil when the upper ends are Hush with the edges of the wick-tubes.

upward to the edge of the wick-tube, and is drawn up from time to time as it burns away, such an adjustment being practicable so long as any portion of the movable section 'y remains in contact with the stationary section. Ihen all that can be used is consumed, the portion of wick g which must be discarded will be much shorter than that which would have to be thrown away under While one section of the wick is thus adjustable in respect to the other for the purpose of supplying the portion burned away, both portions are simultaneously adj ust-able b v means of the elevatingwheel or other device J, as required, in order to regulate the dame.

The stationary portion of the wick may consist of a single annular wick,f, as shown in Fig. l, in which case the adjustable portion g is arranged between the portion f and the carrier-tube K; or the said stationary portion may consist of two annular wicks,ff, vwith the movable portion g extending between them, as shown in Fig. 2.

In order to facilitate theintroduction of the wick into the wick-chamber, which is sometimes a difficult operation, owing to the fraying or spreading of the fibers at the lower end of the wick, and also to secure the fixed portion of the wick to the wick-carrier, I make use of a guard, u, consisting of paper, fabric, foil, or other suitable thin exible material, extending beneath the lower edges of the wick and carrier and upward upon both sides, as shown IOO in the drawings, and as aconvenient means of securing the wick and guard together I gum the face of the said guard-strip, so that the upwardly-extending` portions are securely cemented both to the wick and to the carriertube.

I do not here claim a guard extending around the lower edge of the wick, as this forms the subject of a separate application for Letters Patent, Serial No. 161,227, the improvement herein set forth consist-ing,` in combining such a guard with the wicleraising tube andthe wick, so as to iacilitate the insertion ot' the two together into the wick-chamber, and also serve as a means of securing the wick to the carrier,

I do nothere claim ,broadl v,tbe combination, with a wick, of a guard folded round the lower edge thereof, as this constitutes the subject of my application, Serial No. 161.237.

Vithout limiting myself tothe precise constructin and arrangement of parts shown and described, I claim- 1. The combination, burner, of a stationary ing-wick, porting both wicks,

with an Argand lampfeeding-wick, a burnaud an adjustable carrier-tube supthe feeding-wick being secured to the carrier-tube, and the burningwick being adjustable longitudinally in respect to the stationary wick and tube, substantially as set forth.

2. rEhe combination, with an Argandburner having an annular-wick receptacle open at the top, of a vertically-adjustable wick-carrying tube, a feeding-wick secured thereto, and a burning-wick supported by the tube in contact with the feeding-wick, but adjustable independently of the latter, the wicks and wickcarrying,` tube being detachable from the burner, substantially-as described.

3. The combination of the wick-carrying tube, Afeeding-'wick secured to said tube, and a burning-wick supported adjustably by the said tube, and a guard, n, extending around the lower edges ot' the tube and feeding-wick and upward within the latter, substantially as set forth.

ln testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES H. I-IIGBEE.

Vtnesses:

CHARLEs E. FosTEE, F. L. FREEMAN. 

